diego wrote:I go for Terraform, but also 100 Hurts.Everytime I listen to "Watch Song" I go fucking crazy. Every element is simply perfect in this song.

Every Terraform I've owned on vinyl, 3 of them altogether over the years, all skipped at the same moment on Watch song, in the beginning, anyone else have this issue?

1000 Hurts right?

Every copy I have ever had did the same thing.

Mine doesn't have that issue with "Watch Song", but on multiple turntables there was a skip on "Shoe Song" that made the beginning repeat over and over between the bass comes in. I probably listened to it for 10 minutes once before I realized what was happening!

Action Park, without a doubt. Much as I love terraform (picture, mouthpiece, house full of garbage, canada, rush job) and 1000 hurts (the usual), AAP is the most consistent and features the highest amount of classic Shellac songs, in my humble opinion. Excellent Italian Greyhound is the one I return to the least, but it is still excellent in places (kitty pants). 2004 peel session also features the definitive performances of several 'Greyhound...' tracks - the performances of 'the end of radio' and 'steady as she goes' presented here blow the versions on EIGH out of the water.

diego wrote:I go for Terraform, but also 100 Hurts.Everytime I listen to "Watch Song" I go fucking crazy. Every element is simply perfect in this song.

Every Terraform I've owned on vinyl, 3 of them altogether over the years, all skipped at the same moment on Watch song, in the beginning, anyone else have this issue?

1000 Hurts right?

Every copy I have ever had did the same thing.

Mine doesn't have that issue with "Watch Song", but on multiple turntables there was a skip on "Shoe Song" that made the beginning repeat over and over between the bass comes in. I probably listened to it for 10 minutes once before I realized what was happening!

'Mouthpiece' is what I was talking about, right as the drums come in, every copy.

AnthonyVillalobos wrote:All of them sound great, obviously, but the EPs can't be touched. EPs win.

Yep, first two EPs, though they all sound great. Terraform is my least-favourite sounding one. I remember Steve saying something somewhere to the effect that the record was hurt by being overcooked, but maybe I'm not remembering right.

But that performance and those songs were fucking perfectly executed and captured at Maida Vale.

I remember thinking this at the time. Let's see... yup: Peel Sessions thread from 2004.

Andrew L. wrote:Why do they sound so good? Who’s the current engineer? How many have there been? Why is the Peel Session version of ‘Crow’ about 1 trillion times better than the album version? What’s Maida Vale got that Electrical Audio doesn’t? Other than John Peel.